Posted on 12/20/2009 8:34:46 AM PST by Ooh-Ah
1. $518.5 Billion In Tax Increases On Health Insurance, Small Businesses, And Medical Treatments. (Senate Finance Committee Minority Staff Review Of JCT And CBO Cost Estimates, 12/19/09)
2. $470.7 Billion In Total Cuts To Medicare And Medicaid Would Pay For Two New Unsustainable Entitlements. (Table 5, Douglas W. Elmendorf, Letter To Senator Harry Reid, 12/19/09)
3. Americans Still Won't See Benefits Of This Health Care Experiment Until 2014, But They Start Paying For It In 2010. (Page 7, Douglas W. Elmendorf, Letter To Senator Harry Reid, 12/19/09)
4. According To Independent Actuaries In The Obama Administration, Overall National Health Spending Will Be Increased By $239 Billion. (Richard Foster, Centers For Medicare And Medicaid Chief Actuary, “Estimated Financial Effects Of The ‘Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act Of 2009,’ As Proposed By The Senate Majority Leader On November 18, 2009,” Centers For Medicare & Medicaid Services, 12/10/09)
5. States Still Burdened With $26 Billion In Unfunded Mandates From Medicaid That Would Force Them To Increase Taxes. (Page 8, Douglas W. Elmendorf, Letter To Senator Harry Reid, 12/19/09)
6. The "Doc Fix" Provision That Would Add $250 Billion To The Deficit Is Still Not Included In The Democrats' List Price For Their Health Care Experiment. (Page 18, Douglas W. Elmendorf, Letter To Senator Harry Reid, 12/19/09)
7. A New Entitlement Program For Long-Term Care That One Democrat Senator Called "A Ponzi Scheme" Would Still Be Created. (Table 5, Douglas W. Elmendorf, Letter To Senator Harry Reid, 12/19/09; Shailagh Murray & Lori Montgomery, "Centrists Unsure About Reid's Public Option," The Washington Post, 10/28/09)
8. Taxpayer Dollars Would Fund Abortions. (Sec. 1303, H.R. 3590, Manager’s Amendment To The Amendment In The Nature Of A Substitute, "Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act," Introduced 11/18/09; Chris Frates, “NRLC Opposes Nelson Amendment,” Politico’s “Live Pulse” Blog, 12/19/09)
9. Gives Vast New Authority To The Office Of Personnel Management To Administer Interstate Insurance Plans Even Though CBO Determined It Won’t Lower Premiums. (Pages 9, Douglas W. Elmendorf, Letter To Senator Harry Reid, 12/19/09)
10. An Even More Poweful New Medicare Commission Of Unelected Bureaucrats Would Ration Care. (Pages 16-17, Douglas W. Elmendorf, Letter To Senator Harry Reid, 12/19/09)
Only politicians could come up with the promise of reducing the cost of medical care by increasing taxes on medical procedures and equipment.
The scary and sad thing is that there are people who believe it!
Mark
And taxing all productive people for it years before it is implemented.
It’s so bad not even leftists want to vote for it.
It's losing support daily to boot.
Thus, the agenda to ram it through working on the weekend and holidays.
They have no conscience other than instant gratification.
STARVE the Beast
That sir is an insult to dogs. Harry is a tape worm.
How do the American people express their rage over this intended destruction of our country and out and out stealing of our freedom????
Surprising that they wrote it so taxes will go up before the 2010 election. You’d think the Dems would have avoided that. Unless it happens very gradually, or employers pay the brunt first so workers don’t see how they have been screwed. If employers end up losing loads of $$ because of this scheme then unemployment will rise too. So much for the experts saying better days are coming. Though no doubt the Labor dept. will somehow fudge the figures. And B0 will say this was all a result of Bush policies.
I have not heard much about this...
7. A New Entitlement Program For Long-Term Care That One Democrat Senator Called “A Ponzi Scheme” Would Still Be Created. (Table 5, Douglas W. Elmendorf, Letter To Senator Harry Reid, 12/19/09; Shailagh Murray & Lori Montgomery, “Centrists Unsure About Reid’s Public Option,” The Washington Post, 10/28/09
This could be an enormous financial burden - I’m not sure I understand it entirely, but I think it will be a huge underfunded entitlement program.
Regarding #3; should be a red flag to all. It tells you they are stealing your money from you with no accountability.
Do they really expect us to believe this bs?
We believed the B.S. (collectively) in 2006 and 2008.
Why wouldn't they expect us to believe it?
So call, email, fax (this is my favorite option), visit these five senators.
Jim Webb
http://webb.senate.gov
Phone: 202-224-4024
Fax: 202-228-6363
Mary Landrieu
http://landrieu.senate.gov
Phone: (202)224-5824
Fax:(202) 224-9735
Blanche Lincoln
http://lincoln.senate.gov
(202) 224-4843
Fax (202) 228-1371
Evan Bayh
http://bayh.senate.gov
Phone: (202) 224-5623
Fax: (202) 228-1377
Joe Lieberman
http://lieberman.senate.gov
Phone: 202.224.4041
Fax: 202.224.9750
Will it help? Maybe. Maybe not. But doing nothing will definitely not help. And hopefully they will have nightmares for prostituting themselves to Harry Reid. And will live in fear and dread, knowing that they will be booted from office at the next election.
“STARVE the Beast”
I agree. I find it difficult to think of how to successfully starve a beast that is already completely out of food yet is able to keep on eating stores from long out into the future.
The beast might be too big to starve.
The beast needs, shall we say, severe and heavy pruning.
“That sir is an insult to dogs. Harry is a tape worm.”
You are right. My apologies to all dogs.
Not all of us believed it. There were red flags all over the place. Jimmy Carter’s hope video should have taught us a lesson.
The first key cloture vote is at 1AM on Sunday night/Monday morning.
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